The Medication Safety Programme aims to greatly reduce the number of New Zealanders harmed each year by medication errors in our hospitals, general practices, aged care facilities and across the entire health and disability sector.

Healthcare associated infection is one of the most frequent adverse events in health care worldwide. Up to 10 percent of patients admitted to modern hospitals in the developed world acquire one or more infections.

This study published in the BMJ Quality & Safety aimed to assess the relationship between changes in clinician attitude and changes in postoperative outcomes following a checklist-based surgical safety intervention.